Course summary
If you are currently working full-time in the legal sector and want to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales using the SQE route to qualification, then this online course is designed to prepare you for those assessments. The course is designed to develop the six legal skills necessary to pass SQE2 as well as revise the functioning legal knowledge you will already have acquired before embarking on SQE2. You’ll have flexibility to study online at your own pace (typically 10 hours per week) over thirty learning weeks. The course is principally asynchronous, but each learning unit is enhanced with a lecturer led timetabled live subject support session to support your learning throughout the course. If you do not have experience working in the legal sector, or you feel that you need a deeper dive into the English legal system, you may wish to study our online SQE2 Preparation Course. Includes our SQE2 Exam Preparation Course for free. Terms and conditions apply, see website for more details. This course will teach you the legal skills required to successfully pass the SRA’s SQE2 assessments comprising assessments in the 6 legal skills of client interviewing, advocacy, case and matter analysis, legal research, legal writing and legal drafting. Why choose this course?
- With complete flexibility to study online at your own pace over 30 weeks, this course is ideal for working legal professionals within the UK, or international lawyers.
- Adaptive and personalised learner journey, using our dynamic learning model: Prepare, Engage, Consolidate (PEC), covering all professional practice subjects and revision of all law subjects in the SRA’s assessment specification.
- Confidence for the assessments Students will have the opportunity to practice multiple skills assessments whilst on the course including prescribed mock assessments and additional practice assessments contained in a Practice Context and Skills Revision Workbook
- Benefit from our extensive experience in preparing students for the type of questions in the SQE2 assessments.
- Brand new resources, developed specifically for SQE by our expert lecturers. You’ll be provided with all course materials, including an extensive bank of practice exam questions, ULaw SQE – our intelligent revision app provides practice tests and feedback to support revision of your Functioning Legal Knowledge.
- Support for your career. You’ll have access to ULaw’s award-winning Employability Service, for information, advice, pro-bono whilst studying, jobs database and links to the profession to help you to succeed in your career. The Employability Team will help you achieve your career and work experience goals.
- We also work with over 90 of the top 100 law firms.
Modules
Pre-course study Students will be required to complete a pre-study online diagnostic test to check their understanding of the key academic law subjects, known at the Functioning Knowledge Quiz The test is to ensure that students’ knowledge of the core academic principles is up to date. Modules This course comprises teaching of the six legal skills outlined in the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA’s) assessment specification: Client interviewing – prepping and conducting an interview with a client, producing an attendance note recording a client interview and initial legal analysis Advocacy – planning for and conduct a piece of advocacy before a judge Case and matter analysis – producing a written report to a partner giving legal advice Legal research – conducting legal research from a variety of paper and electronic resources Legal writing – producing a letter of email as the solicitor acting in a matter, which clearly and correctly applies the law Legal drafting – drafting full or part legal documents, use of precedents Students will typically have to study 1 unit per week and each unit will take approximately 10 hours to complete. Each unit follows our unique dynamic learning model: Prepare, Engage, Consolidate (PEC). Prepare. The Prepare stage includes a rich mixture of learning activities taking approximately six hours: manual reading, multi-media, the completion of preparatory tasks and test your knowledge quizzes. Engage In the Engage stage, students will undertake learning activities in the virtual learning environment where they apply the knowledge or practice the skill, they have acquired in the Prepare stage. The Engage stage (which should take approximately two hours) is delivered by a combination of asynchronous learning activities and LSSSs. which can be scheduled at any time during the day and recorded for students who cannot attend. Consolidate. Students will then be required to complete the Consolidate stage taking approximately two hours using the University’s virtual learning environment, which will involve a mixture of short consolidation learning activities. Mocks for each of the written skills will be released after unit 3 of each written skill. Mocks for the oral skills will be scheduled in one of the weeks after unit 3 and before unit 5 of that oral skill .
Assessment method
There are no formal The University of Law exams. There are mock SQE2 assessments throughout the course, to track your progress and help you prepare for the requirements of the real assessments. This course does not lead to an academic award. You will sit your written SQE assessments at Pearson VUE test centres in the UK and internationally and your oral SQE assessments at one of 4 locations in the UK. For details on how to book, pay and receive your results for your SQE assessments, as well as request any reasonable adjustments, please visit the SRA website. The 16 SQE2 assessments are each set in one of five practice areas studied in SQE1. The practice areas are: criminal practice (including advising clients at the police station) dispute resolution property practice wills and intestacy, probate administration and practice business organisations, rules and procedures (including money laundering and financial services). The SQE2 exam is divided into two parts – SQE2 Oral assessment over two days and written assessment over three days.
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements for this programme.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| EU | £4650 | Whole course |
| International | £4650 | Whole course |
| England | £4650 | Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | £4650 | Whole course |
| Scotland | £4650 | Whole course |
| Wales | £4650 | Whole course |
| Channel Islands | £4650 | Whole course |
| Republic of Ireland | £4650 | Whole course |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
You can pay with one upfront payment or with six monthly instalments (part-time courses only).
Study manuals: Digital versions of the manuals included in the course fee, however if you wish to purchase an eBook or hard copy you’ll receive a 50% discount if you’d like to purchase from our eStore.
Offers and discounts:
Free SQE2 Exam Preparation Course. Saving you £1100.
There is an additional £250 SQE Prep Alumni Discount for ULaw graduates.
You can pay with one upfront payment or with six monthly instalments (part-time courses only).
Pass first time or study for free. We’re so confident in our SQE courses that, if you don’t pass the SQE2, you can repeat our Exam Preparation Courses up to two further times.
Provider information
The University of Law
2 Bunhil Row
London
EC1Y 8HQ